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Food Dynasty Supermarkets Opened: May 2024 Owner:  Polo Rodriguez Previous Tenants:  Top Tomato Superstore Cooperative:  Key Food Stores Location:  1071 Bay St, Staten Island, NY Photographed:  May 8, 2025 Does this store in Staten Island's Rosebank neighborhood look familiar? Well, dedicated readers might remember seeing it way back in 2020 when it was still a Top Tomato. Top Tomato has had a tumultuous history, with several of their locations opening and then closing quickly or being sold or rebranded, and these days there's only one Top Tomato left. This location, which is around 10,000 square feet, was sold several years ago, if I'm not mistaken, but kept its Top Tomato name, then it was sold again in May 2024. At that point, the current owners took over and rebranded it Food Dynasty. Over several months, the store underwent an extensive renovation. You can tell right away that this doesn't look anything like the Top Tomato it replaced. The Top Tomato wasn...

Vucciria Gourmet Italian Market of Brooklyn Opened:  March 19, 2025 Owner:  Silvestro LoVerde Previous Tenants:  A&P > Foodtown > Shop n Bag > Garden Farm > Top Tomato Cooperative:  none Location:  3105 US-9, Old Bridge, NJ Photographed:  March 23, 2025 Old Bridge, NJ is a large town in the middle of the state, just south of New Brunswick and not quite at the Jersey Shore but a bit inland from the northern part of the shore. And it (and neighboring towns) have an enormous number of supermarkets. Old Bridge itself has a new ShopRite , an ACME , a new Seabra's Market , and an ALDI , and obviously the ShopRite is the heavy hitter there. But the surrounding area has any number of other supermarkets, ranging from international stores to discount stores to full supermarkets. It's a competitive market, and newcomers sometimes struggle. In fact, the space that is now Seabra's was previously a SuperFresh for just a couple months from June to October...

 A lot has been happening in the last few weeks, so here's a roundup of all the local supermarket news of the northeast. It's January, so unfortunately that means a lot of closures (openings typically happen in the spring and summer, and closures typically happen in the winter). But there's some other things going on, too. You can also follow me at news.marketreportblog.com for all the updates! This Weekend's Posts City Supermarket nears completion of its remodel in Kenilworth The small but mighty store in downtown Kenilworth is wrapping up its remodel after being acquired by local chain City Supermarket last summer. Read more here ! Price Chopper prepares to close a Worcester store The writing has been on the wall for years, but the time is here: Price Chopper will be closing their store in Main South Worcester. Read all about it here ! Shaw's at Webster Square is reset, but not (yet?) remodeled And just a couple blocks away, Shaw's has reset their southern Wo...

Top Tomato Superstore Opened: June 20, 2024 Owner:  Buddy Sciandra Previous Tenants:  A&P > Norkus Foodtown > Shop n Bag > Garden Farm Cooperative:  none Location:  3105 US-9, Old Bridge, NJ Photographed:  June 22, 2024 Old Bridge is a hotspot for new grocery store openings, it seems! The ShopRite relocated to a gorgeous new facility in March, SuperFresh opened to the west in Browntown in early June, and now, Top Tomato has returned to New Jersey with a new store in what used to be Old Bridge's Garden Farm Market . (An Amazon Fresh also appears to be in progress just to the north, and the old ShopRite -- which you can see at the link above -- is being subdivided , and it's possible one of the spaces could become a supermarket.) This  Top Tomato has a very complicated history which I will attempt to recount here, but to be honest, it's extremely confusing even to me. The chain originated in 1979 as a large produce market in Bensonhurst, Broo...